Since my last post I ran a live-CD of Fatdog on the same hardware, and found CUPS-PDF working fine there (its CUPS 1.5.3 I think, whereas in LH-64 beta still on 1.4.6 - would that matter). Could I replace LH's pdf-writer with FD's?

You could try and let us know. But since Fatdog uses a newer Glibc... there is the possibility that it wont work. There's no way to tell until you try it._________________

Hi Q5sys - just tried it now, copying the FD (v. 64-610 beta) pdf-writer across. It worked - but perhaps I should have just purged the previous jobs as a first step much earlier, as status was always "Paused" for some reason I never worked out. When I deleted them, the new job registered fine and now the CUPS-PDF remains on "Idle" between jobs. Initially I received a "pdf-writer failed" error message in the printer job queue page, which I hadn't seen previously. I went ahead with a 4-to-a-page pdf anyway from Evince and it printed fine. Did a quick, doomed-to-fail attempt at compiling PDFshuffler 0.6 (with devx.sfs loaded at boot) and while it says that all dependencies are met, the python extras (pyPDF-1.13 and pypoppler-0.12.1) still need trackiing down._________________Toowoomba Linux Community
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I'm running a few final tests, but unless I find a show stopper, the ISOs will be available very soon.

Please note that Fatdog 64 display drivers will not work with this release, as the Xorg is from Slackware64 14.0. The Fatdog repo is available in PPM, but is disabled by default. The other repos, Slackware, Salix and Slacky offer many compatible packages.

One shortcoming with the PPM: (Puppy Package Manager) even though it has been updated from Woof--it is not fully aware of packages present in an SFS add on. For example, if you select a KDE package in PPM, it will prompt for Qt4 and many KDE core pkgs--even if the KDE4 SFS is currently installed. The 'Check dependencies of Installed Pets' feature should account for files in an SFS but sometimes fails to locate a few libraries when they are not located in the usual directories. I think this is because some apps place them within their own sub-directories instead of, say /usr/lib64/. So often the app will work fine even if PPM reports missing dependencies.

I've focused on core updates and bug fixes for this release, though there are several new or updated apps available.

The following applications have not been updated for this release but I will try to work on these as time allows:

The 600 interim build had too many bugs, so I replaced it with 601, a newer kernel and updated the release notes. The base ISO does not include a Flashplayer plugin, but it is available via Lighthouse Update Pet, or SFS. I plan to make the latest JavaRE and Flash available for LH64 515 as well.

I tried to update to KDE 4.9.3.sfs but it was sluggish and Qt-4.8 didn't work properly with ROX-Filer, so I updated the earlier KDE 4.6.5-F to G which includes Qt-4.7.

(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-CRITICAL **: Plugin orageclock: There was no executable found at "/usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/orageclock"
(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-DEBUG: Another plugin already registered with the internal name "pager".
(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-DEBUG: Another plugin already registered with the internal name "separator".
(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-DEBUG: Another plugin already registered with the internal name "showdesktop".
(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-DEBUG: Another plugin already registered with the internal name "systray".
(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-DEBUG: Another plugin already registered with the internal name "tasklist".

(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-CRITICAL **: Plugin thunar-tpa: There was no executable found at "/usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/thunar-tpa"

(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-CRITICAL **: Plugin xfce4-menu: There was no executable found at "/usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-menu-plugin"

(xfce4-panel:15986): xfce4-panel-CRITICAL **: Plugin xfce4-mixer-plugin: There was no executable found at "/usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-mixer-plugin"

1. copy a 4GB file to another file.
2. once copy is over, immediately reboot the machine.
3. screen shows "shutdown complete". after 1 second, screen goes hazy. First it became like black and white TV, then screen went blank, some colors here and there...and so on.
5. with fear I pushed start/re-start button. I heard dog barking sound. Then after 5-6 seconds machine restarted.
6. It seems puppy is really in trouble.

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